Deepfake and synthesized reality

Authors

  • Patrícia Fonseca Fanaya Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Center of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Postgraduate Program in Philosophy, Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2021i23p104-118

Keywords:

Deepfake, Simulated Reality, Synthesized Reality, Truth

Abstract

Deepfake technologies, by which computers are trained to manipulate audio and images to an increasingly impressive level of perfection, are being developed rapidly. They have a great potential of popularization as well as the power of spreading disinformation and lies disguised as reality and truth. Besides, they can feed with even more sophistication the most bizarre conspiracy theories, which have the power to threaten policies, the law, and science. Hence, deepfake technologies make the war of disinformation even more complex and dangerous, causing any distinction between true and false or real and fictitious to break down. This article aims at contextualizing the phenomenon of deepfakes within the context of synthesized or simulated reality, relating it to the
problem of truth.

Author Biography

Patrícia Fonseca Fanaya, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Center of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Postgraduate Program in Philosophy, Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

PhD in Communication and Semiotics PUC-SP; MA in Translation Studies PGET/UFSC; BA in Social Communication-Publicity UnB-DF. Post-doctoral researcher PPGFIL/UFSC.

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2021-10-12

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